Houston Romance

Exchanged insults, traded blows
and the wounds don’t even show
you’re self-reliant, a perfect tyrant
I guess I always knew you’d never be my fire-hydrant
Well I knew this would end up like it did
At least we didn’t have a kid
I’m leaving behind this gray infested swamp
with its poisonous water snakes and it’s toxic golf course lakes
CHORUS:
Corpus Christi
Texas City
It’s not the humidity, it’s the humanity
it’s not the insensitivity, it’s the insanity
Corpus Christi, Texas City
I remember wishing I was dead
Like the peanut shells on the floor of the Ruby Red’s
A stranger in a strange land
a beautiful girl tugging on my hand
trying in vain to drain the water off my brain
CHORUS
SOLO
A couple of hundred meals
and this is how it feels
Baylor and Rice and everything nice
Guess I’ll think about her maybe once or twice
Texas Cityyyyyyyy
Say goodbye to U-totem's, say goodbye to Kroger
gonna fly the coup before I get much older
Cause I don’t like clams and I don’t like oysters
I don’t like the locals when I’m drunk and boisterous
I don’t like the Astros and the Oilers are gone
Not even a reason to sing this song
about a town where you broke my heart
It’s time for a brand new start
Texas City, Corpus Christi, Goodbye X 3
I’m going back to California, back to California, Goodbye